Generation A, Douglas Coupland (and a little bit of Generation X)
ReviewsLured by the combination of a big Helvetica 'A' on a yellow background like a moth to a candle-flame,...
The Guardian books blog
ReviewsI've just discovered the brilliant Guardian books blog (how is it I've missed this up till now?), and enjoyed...
book house
ReviewsHow 'bout this? Pretty nifty... Trouble is, I'd want to pull out a book to read, and the ones...
magculture blog
ReviewsIf, like me, you love magazines then you probably already know about magculture, the magazine-themed blog run by Jeremy...
A little magazine called Mono-Kultur
ReviewsWhile chipping away at bits of McSweeney's I thought I would post about another quarterly I discovered recently that...
McSweeney’s Panorama
ReviewsI think I've mentioned before how much I like McSweeney's, so it was with great excitement that I opened...
Dick Francis, RIP
ReviewsSad to hear that Dick Francis has died. He was 89. I probably have more Dick Francis books knocking...
Mexico book finds
ReviewsBack from holiday in Mexico. Saw this lovely book in a bookshop we found one day – my Spanish...
Legend of a Suicide, David Vann
Reviews'In the very end – always a surprising time – my father fixated on zablaglione.'An amazing read that completely...
Do You Read Me?, Berlin
ReviewsOn a surprise Berlin weekend recently I made a beeline for the Do You Read Me store. And it...
Book club – Cormac McCarthy, The Road
ReviewsOur reviews of The Road now up on the main site - weird book that none of us particularly...
Little White Lies & Huck, Where The Wild Things Are issues
ReviewsOn the subject of things that make me happy, I finally rounded up both a copy of Little White...
Chicken soup and Michael Palin
ReviewsHome with ANOTHER cold, a pile of tissues, some chicken soup I made (you never need quite as many...
book shop planet earth
ReviewsMy boss sent me the link to The Book Depository Live. They've linked up with Google maps to show,...
Review of 2009
Reviews2009 - the year I got the book club website up and running, and started this blog. Originally I...
Augmented-reality books. The future?
ReviewsHow about this: augmented-reality books. The future? Have a look at 'video 1'. I love the way that some...
Secrets of the Universe book
ReviewsBook just out designed by my friend & colleague Avni - not one of my readers, or paying me...
how to arrange your library
ReviewsHow indeed. A current preoccupation, as we finally - after a year - have new shelves. So being a...
Paris finds
ReviewsBack in Paris for the weekend, and some nice things in the bookshop on rue de Bretagne round the...
Terra Incognita
ReviewsAs if it knew I wanted to read it, my copy of Sara Wheeler's Terra Incognita turned up, and...
when books become clutter
ReviewsSo my current preoccupation is shelves, as we are shortly, most excitingly, to get some for our no-longer-very-new house....
book club – The Jungle Book
ReviewsPoor neglected blog, this past week. Busy, busy. But we had book club last night. Read all about it...
Paris (for work) and Alias Grace
ReviewsBack from a work trip to Paris with Amanda. I liked these bookshelves I saw in Elle Deco magazine...
Halloween and e-readers
ReviewsIt's dark, there are strange folk about, it must be Halloween... (Some random guys I bumped in to outside the...
I want to … (2)
ReviewsDesign books as beautifully as Fernando Gutiérrez, ex-Pentagram, now doing his own thing. He often works with La Fabrica,...
I want to…
ReviewsDesign a book with a bright cloth cover and coloured blocking, with a belly band (I think that's the...